SPECIAL EVENTS — Gordon Baldwin Visitor Information Saturday Talks Most Saturdays at 11am from Saturday 17 March 2012 Join one of the Friends of York Art Gallery for a 20 minute talk about Gordon Opening times: The Café at York Art Gallery: Baldwin and the exhibition. Please see the website or ring 01904 687687 for Daily from 10am – 5pm Sample freshly prepared more details. Limited seating due to the open display of the exhibition. Closed 25, 26 December sandwiches, great coffee Poetry: Shape and Form Saturday 31 March 10.30am-3pm & 1 January and cakes in our café. Poet Andrew McMillan will lead a day of poetry writing for adults taking Gordon inspiration from the work on display. £15 per person. To book a place ring Admission: Friends of York Art Gallery: 01904 650333. Free. Donations welcome. For more information on Drawing Form Saturday 14 April 10.30am-3pm becoming a Friend telephone Access: Baldwin: Inspired by Baldwin’s exploratory drawings – make large, bold sculptural 01904 687687 or visit www. drawings. £30 per person. To book a place ring York Explore on 01904 552806 or York Art Gallery is on two friendsofyorkartgallery.co.uk email [email protected]. levels, both of which are fully Objects for Curator’s Talk Wednesday 18 April 12.30pm-1pm accessible to wheelchair users. Address: Join Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts Helen Walsh to hear more about the York Art Gallery, Exhibition Shop: exhibition. Limited seating due to the open display of the exhibition. Square, York YO1 7EW Visit our shop for stationery, a Landscape Creating Form Saturdays 21 and 28 April 10am-3pm Tel: 01904 687687 In these workshops for adults create sculptural forms in clay and mixed cards and postcards. media. £60 per person for two days. To book a place ring York Explore on 01904 Email: [email protected] 552806 or email [email protected]. www.yorkartgallery.org.uk ‘Objects for a Landscape’ Sculptural Ceramics Symposium February – June 2012 Friday 11 May YORK ART Join a group of experts to find out more about the field of sculptural GALLERY MINSTER ceramics, in particular the work of Gordon Baldwin. A partnership project with the University of York. More details will be available from February 2012 on YORKSHIRE MUSEUM & T. GARDENS S our website – www.yorkartgallery.org.uk. M U E S U M YORK PARL STATION Other Events IAME D N A T ST RO FOSS Curator’s Talks Wednesday 15 February 12.30pm-1pm N C . IO O G AT N P A ST EY ICCA TE

York’s Dutch and Flemish paintings by Jennifer Alexander, Assistant Curator ST DILL . YORK ST. Y of Fine Art. MARYS Wednesday 20 June 12.30pm-1pm TE WALMGATE MICKLEGA Future plans for York Art Gallery – a talk about the proposed plans for SK TOWER ST E LD redevelopment and how this will impact on the building. E YORK R GA CASTLE . FREE – no booking required T MUSEUM N E UN N E RY . Book Club Saturday 14 April 3pm-4.30pm York Museums Trust’s L ANE E ST monthly book club visits York Art Gallery to discuss Headlong by Michael Frayn. FREE but please book on 01904 650333. BISHOPGAT Early Drawing Techniques Saturday 12 May 10am-2pm A day of practical drawing activities exploring the materials and techniques used by European artists from the Renaissance to the 1700s. £25 per person, including all materials. To book a place ring 01904 650333. Front cover image: Gordon Baldwin, Detail of Vessel from the Belvedere Series, 1988, photography by Philip Sayer © The Anthony Shaw Collection/York Museums Trust. Sketch&Stitch: Moth Magic Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 June Inside images: Gordon Baldwin, Vessel in the Form of a Voice, 1983; Mary Emily Osborn, 10am-3pm Using specimens from the Yorkshire Museum’s natural history Study for ‘Nameless and Friendless’, 1857; Gordon Baldwin, Vessel from the Belvedere collections, develop stitched textile designs inspired by the colours and Series, 1988; Bernardo Bellotto, The Piazza San Martino, Lucca, c.1744; The Burton Gallery patterns of moths. £40 per person, including all materials. To book a place ring at York Art Gallery; Gordon Baldwin, Developed Bowl on a Base, 1979; Gordon Baldwin 01904 650333. working in his studio, 2011; Gwen John, Young Woman in a Red Shawl, c.1920; Pablo Picasso, Scène de Tauromachie, 1954. Family Saturdays (funded by Friends of York Art Gallery) All Gordon Baldwin images photography by Philip Sayer © The Anthony Shaw Collection/York Museums Trust, Image of the Burton Gallery by Red Jester Photography 5 March, 2 April, 7 May & 4 June, 11am – 1pm & 2pm – 4pm and all other images are copyright of York Museums Trust. Artist led drop-in workshops for families. These events are for accompanied Our collections are extremely large so unfortunately we cannot always display children. A £1 charge will be made for materials. everything. We regularly need to remove works from display for conservation or loan to other museums. If you are coming to York Art Gallery to see something specific, we advise Visit www.yorkartgallery.org.uk for further details on all these events. you to contact the Gallery before visiting.

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Welcome... Gordon Baldwin: Burton Gallery Objects for a Landscape Refurbished in 2011, the Burton Gallery …to the latest edition of York Art Gallery’s displays works of art from the gallery’s 11 February – 10 June 2012 exciting programme of exhibitions and events outstanding collection. With paintings A major exhibition dating from the sixteenth century to 2012 at York Art Gallery opens with the first major UK touring celebrating the works of art by contemporary artists, exhibition of work by one of the world’s most distinguished achievements of Gordon the display features a huge variety of ceramists. Gordon Baldwin: Objects for a Landscape showcases Baldwin OBE, one of the styles and subjects. Discover less well more than 100 works by this sculptural potter who has helped to UK’s most important known paintings and re-visit old redefine the expressive language of clay over the last fifty years. sculptural ceramists. favourites such as Richard Jack’s Return Baldwin’s work is a diary to the Front, 1916 and Sir Joshua Reynold’s Portrait of Captain John Don’t forget to visit the refurbished Burton Gallery upstairs which of thought, a physical record Foote, 1761-5. displays paintings, sculpture and ceramics from the 16th century of his occupations and to the present day. Also, take the opportunity to view the Gallery obsessions. This exhibition Gallery of Pots of Pots, where Excitations features work selected by Gordon offers a journey through Baldwin from York Museums Trust’s ceramics collections. a landscape composed of Excitations – Gordon Baldwin’s vessels and sculptural forms, selection from York’s Join in the fun with our vibrant events programme. Enjoy a wide three-dimensional canvases collection range of talks, family activities and workshops for visitors of all for his ideas. In this very personal ages. Finally… Bringing together over 100 exhibition, Gordon Baldwin seldom seen works from chooses pots by makers …put a note in your diary for our next major exhibition Art & private collections, it includes key works from the 1960s onwards who had an impact on him Music opening in June 2012. This exhibition looks at the parallels and new pieces made as he approaches his 80th birthday. when he was studying between the art forms of painting and music and considers how painting and brought about the music is represented in visual art, featuring works from the The exhibition will be accompanied by a richly illustrated book, moment he hung up his palette in collections of York Museums Trust. celebrating Baldwin’s work and achievements. favour of working in clay.